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9/18/25

hi again diary!
i just did the chores around the dorm. and of course, i will get no thank you. tis a thankless job to be the only competent person in the dorm.... my enemy and i were lab partners today and we had a nice heart-to-heart about my roommate and how they are lazy and incompetent. they have a cat. the cat is not cared after by anyone except ME. and i don't like cats. i hate cats. and yet, i am stuck caring for it because I personally would not want a shitty litterbox for a week and a half. if i were a helpless animal i'd make my shitass human do it, but instead the bitchy shitass human is doing it. fuck. i fucking hate this cat. but it's fine...
i'm excited for dinner in ten minutes. it's the only thing i'm looking forward to until my shower, where i'll look forward to taking a shower. at least i'll have my clothes laid out tomorrow and i'll wear my rainbow bandana and look so cutie pie!!!

see you next time

Announcing Nagamas 2025-2026!

This year, nominations begin on October 16th, sign-ups will begin on October 27th, and gifts will be due on January 7th. (You can view all the details here.)

Once again, we are running the exchange on AO3, so now is a great time to make an AO3 account if you don't already have one! (Please contact the mods if you don't have any way to make an account and we'll help.)

We'll make another post promoting the event closer to when nominations open, but we wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to get those dates on the calendar as early as possible, since we know other exchanges are happening around the same time.

In the meantime, put those dates on your calendar & get excited!

2025-2026 Schedule + Rules

Nagamas is a fanfiction and fanart exchange for all games in the Fire Emblem franchise.

This exchange requires participants to be 18 or older in order to sign up.

An Archive of Our Own (AO3) account is required to participate. (Please contact the mods if you need an invite.)

SCHEDULE

Nominations open: Thursday October 16th, 2025, 11:59pm EST
Nominations close: Saturday October 25th, 2025, 11:59pm EST
Signups open: no later than Monday October 27th, 2025, 11:59pm EST
Signups close: Wednesday November 5th, 2025 11:59pm EST
Assignments out: no later than Friday November 7th, 2025 11:59pm EST
Assignments due: Wednesday January 7th, 2026, 11:59pm EST
Pinch hit deadline: Wednesday January 14th, 2026, 11:59pm EST
Collection and creators revealed: no later than Thursday January 15th, 2026, 11:59pm EST

LINKS

AO3 collection
Tagset
Sign-up form (sign-ups not yet live; link will be added here when they are)
Last year's exchange (if you'd like to browse what kinds of gifts folks received last year!)

CONTACT

If you need to contact the mods please reach out via one of those methods:

(1) a a private message to the nagamas Dreamwidth account

(2) a comment on the mod contact post

(3) an email to the address merry.nagamas@gmail.com

SOCIAL MEDIA

Note that the following social media accounts are only for the purposes of (1) mirroring announcements about the exchange, and (2) reblogging/retweeting/etc gifts once the collection is open. This Dreamwidth page is the "canonical" source for communication about the exchange. DMs/messages to these accounts may not be answered promptly or at all.

nagamas @ Tumblr
fe_nagamas @ Twitter
nagamas @ Bluesky

HOW-TO

For those who are new to AO3-based fan exchanges, here's a high-level overview of how this works:

(1) During the nominations period, you will nominate the characters and/or relationships you want to request during the exchange.

(2) During the signup period, you will request what gifts you'd like, using the tags that were nominated during the nominations period, and optionally you'll write prompts to further specify what kind of gift you'd like to see from your gifter. You will also offer what game/characters/ships you're willing to make a gift for.

(3) Once sign-ups close, after the matching algorithm has run, you will receive an email with your assignment.

(4) Once the deadline has passed and everyone has a gift (the deadline will be extended if not everyone has a gift yet), all gifts will be simultaneously revealed, and you'll receive an email with a link to your gift.

More details for all these steps are below.

( NOMINATIONS )

( SIGNUPS )

( ASSIGNMENTS )

( FULFILLING )

( REVEALS )